07/24/2026
New Summer Playlist: Like a Spark
Some songs that try to capture the long days of summer.
07/14/2026
Back to Film
I’ve spent the last few months shooting on film for the first time in 20 years.
07/10/2026
Rewatching Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy in 2026
These films shaped my introduction to the design industry. What is it like watching them now?
07/07/2026
Calder Gardens
A visit to the recently opened Calder Gardens, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with gardens by Piet Oudolf.
05/28/2026
Self Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is a Brilliant Defense of Art-Making
The nine-part series from South African artist William Kentridge is the best look inside the creative process
05/20/2026
My New Book: Graphic Designers After Graphic Design
I have a new book coming out from Princeton Architectural Press this fall!
05/02/2026
A Secret, Invisible Grid
From Larissa Pham’s delightful new novel, Discipline:
He told me he was a graphic designer. I didn’t know what that meant, so I asked him, and he said it was about seeing the understructure of how people saw the world. There was a secret, invisible grid that lay beneath everything, a rhyme scheme that encompassed plants and animals, cities and cars; his job was to align shapes to it, to make things look the way they should, and to do it so elegantly that no one noticed he had moved anything at all.
03/16/2026
Building my own bookmarking software
With the help of Claude Code, I finally have the bookmarking app I've always wanted.
03/12/2026
Designed Films
What makes a film designerly?
01/07/2026
Movies Watched, 2025
A list of every movie I watched last year.
01/06/2026
Books Read, 2025
A list of every book I read last year.
12/19/2025
Favorite Essays of 2025
Another year of good reading. Here are a few favorite texts from 2025.
12/17/2025
Favorite Albums of 2025
An accounting of the music that resonated with me this year.
10/13/2025
My speculative conversation with George Nelson
Can AI help me interview designers from the past?
09/01/2025
An essay about AI that isn’t really about AI
My latest essay for Fast Company untangles my thoughts about graphic design and AI.
07/29/2025